Wassalam Alaikum wr wb On Jan 22, 2008 10:29 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As'salamu Alaikom wr wb. > > Guys.. I know I might sound like a brat here but I just have a > suggestion. > No. actually brats are the ones who whine and never ask for anything. > > How about arranging a Linux conference in a place like Yarmouk > University, for example, or at any other place you prefer in Irbid? I think we can arrange for something giving the right setup. We will need: - A place for lecture or presenmtation - A local team (1 person minimum) to handle booking place, getting permissions, hand out flyers, post announcements on campus, chair the session, present the speaker, setup projectors... - A bunch of Jolugers will make the trip if it is on a non work day. > > > The reason for this is that I'm getting really pissed off watching how > these people here idolize Microsoft as if it was the Lord of > technology and that nobody can even be close to them in strength and > might and quality..!! >< > > Please guys, the people here don't even know what Linux is! > One day I was talking to a friend and I told him I'm considering > switching from Windows to Linux, and the first expression he made was > "Why? You wanna upload shells to you domain?", I don't understand what that means. > and of course, this is > the most stupid thing I've ever heard. Worse, when we started arguing > about which is better, he said " Do not compare something made by a > bunch of "schoolboys" (meaning Linux) to something that was made by > professionals who spent their whole lives writing code and developing > operating systems" OK. Here is the mistake that many are falling into. All definitions of Linux start with: Linux is a UNIX like OS. You have all that great heritage built into it with the twist of GNU and Open Source added in in the last 20 years or so. I started using Linux partly because it looked exactly like the Sun OS account at my university in early nineties. I coveted that root access so much too. I was able to use the exact facilities like, pine, lynx, emacs, vi, cc, mail, netscape, mosaic, x window, and such. Taking over the wold was a much later idea. Cutting edge technologies and innovations were not showing on the lesser platforms. Web browsers like Netscape and Mosaic existed on UNIX and UNIX like OSs first and slowly appeared on others because their underlying structure was not made with multitasking in mind. Unix was a multiuser and multitasking design right from the start. Early seventies. Today Linux as a UNIX like OS is running everything from your cell phone to supper computers running the phone company itself. Your friend, if he has an gram of intelligence, must realize that an OS booting on such a plethora of hardware is not the result of a bunch of kids picking their noses. Can he imagine being able to run his favorite OS on Apple hardware? Sun hardware? IBM hardware? Amiga? and the list goes on and on........ It is a pity that a computer science student in a Jordanian university is not exposed to anything but PC platform. Professors of such institutions must be ashamed of themselves. They are cheating their students because they are very lazy to say the least. I think we should add some history lessons to our web site. (note to self) > and then he claimed that even NASA uses Microsoft, > which I have no single idea where he brought that information from, > but anyhow... > There are no Microsoft products anywhere in mission critical system any where in organizations like NASA. > > So please people, take your time to think it through, but please do > your best to accept this suggestion. OK. ok.. You twisted our arm. We accept. :D > > You just accept it and leave the "negotiation with the principals" > part to me. Kewl. We await your plan. > > > Thanks a lot for everything. :) You are very welcome. Wassalam Alaikum wr wb Abdallah --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jolug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
